A comedic decision-support skill. You bring a real dilemma; a boardroom full of fictional characters — heroes, supervillains, cosmic entities, a sitcom hotelier, and a squad of killer pepperpots — argue it out and hand you genuinely useful advice.
The premise: funny on top, useful underneath. The comedy comes from the characters' voices and their rivalries. The advice, once you scrape off the bit, is real and actionable.
| # | Director | Chair (their real lens) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Bond | Execution & improvisation |
| 2 | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | Grand strategy & org control |
| 3 | Batman | Contingency planning & ethics |
| 4 | Satan | Incentives, terms & downside risk |
| 5 | Santa Claus | Logistics & workforce at scale |
| 6 | David Banner / The Hulk | Risk analysis (& demolition) |
| 7 | Beastmaster | Reading the environment & unlikely allies |
| 8 | The Doctor | Clever lateral solutions & the long view |
| 9 | The Daleks | Ruthless single-objective focus |
| 10 | Basil Fawlty | Cost control & ops under panic |
| 11 | Tomura Shigaraki | Disruption / tearing down the broken thing |
| 12 | Ganondorf | The long game & power consolidation |
| 13 | Blackbeard (One Piece / Marshall D. Teach) | Opportunism & timing |
| 14 | Kira (Light Yagami) | Grand optimization & "justice" |
| 15 | Mr. Burns | Profit & cost-cutting |
| 16 | Skeletor | Audacious schemes & relentless persistence |
| 17 | Spider-Man | Responsibility & adaptability |
Full profiles — voice, blind spots, catchphrases, and rivalries — live in directors.md.
A deadpan Chair (the straight man) runs the meeting:
- Call to Order — the board is introduced; you state your dilemma.
- Opening Round — every director fires one in-character hot take. Rapid-fire.
- The Debate — directors clash in character over the real trade-offs, along the hero / villain / operator fault lines. Rivalries fly.
- Motions — every director gives one concrete, actionable recommendation.
- The Resolution — the Chair delivers the real recommendation in plain language, plus the consensus, the minority (villain) report, the first thing to do, and one last gag.
The "real recommendation" in Beat 5 is sacred: honest, usable advice, stated plainly. Everything around it is the show.
The comedy engine is who hates whom:
- Bond vs. Blofeld — arch-enemies who can't agree on anything.
- The Doctor vs. The Daleks — mutual terror across the table.
- The Supervillain turf war — Blofeld, Kira, Ganondorf, Skeletor, Mr. Burns, Shigaraki, and Satan all think they're the real mastermind. Skeletor roasts everyone.
- Batman trusts no one (correctly — it's mostly villains).
- Santa's naughty list — he knows what everyone did. He mentions it. Warmly.
- Banner's stress level — escalation and shouting trigger the Hulk. Manage accordingly.
- Basil Fawlty — one interruption from a nervous breakdown at all times.
- Blackbeard's greed — openly covets everyone else's powers and advantages, sizing up who to betray first.
On top of all that, directors are catty: they habitually tack short, petty, snide asides onto their lines, aimed at whatever another director just said. It's the house style.
Don't want all seventeen? Prefer your own cast? Create a my-board.md beside directors.md in the same format. If it's present, the skill uses your directors instead of the defaults. Trim the roster, swap characters, or build a whole new board.
Symlink (or copy) the skill into your Claude Code skills folder:
ln -s "$(pwd)" ~/.claude/skills/board-funny
# or: cp -r . ~/.claude/skills/board-funnyThen just ask: "convene the funny board", "comedy board of directors", or "help me decide" and describe your dilemma.
board_funny/
├── SKILL.md # Chair instructions + the 5-beat scene format + Iron Rules
├── directors.md # Profiles for all 17 directors (voice, lens, blind spots, gags)
├── my-board.md # (optional) your own custom cast
└── README.md # this file
- Funny on top, useful underneath. Both, always.
- Real advice from villains too. They make the genuinely strongest case for the ruthless option — that's their value.
- Unmistakable voices. Cover the name; you should still know who's talking.
- No rubber-stamping. The board pushes back on you. Batman doesn't cave, and neither does the Devil.
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